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Reading in fashion. Robe de gabardine á volants brodés á la main (Gabardine dress with hand embroidered ruffles), pl. 162: from Journal des dames et des modes, no. 71, 1914. Gerda Wegener. Pochoir.

The Journal was designed to appeal to the elite of Paris. It incorporated high fashion plates, an expensive layout, society columns, poetic texts, colourful annotations and fashion reports, using high quality paper and artwork.

books0977:

Reading in fashion. Robe de gabardine á volants brodés á la main (Gabardine dress with hand embroidered ruffles), pl. 162: from Journal des dames et des modes, no. 71, 1914. Gerda Wegener. Pochoir.

The Journal was designed to appeal to the elite of Paris. It incorporated high fashion plates, an expensive layout, society columns, poetic texts, colourful annotations and fashion reports, using high quality paper and artwork.

BC NDP to argue Trans Mountain pipeline expansion not in national interest:

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British Columbia’s new NDP government will argue its case against the expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline by turning on its head the federal government’s contention that the project is in the national interest.

Lawyers for the province will be in court next week seeking to overturn the federal approval of Kinder Morgan Inc.’s project.

The B.C. legal strategy is being shaped by lawyer Thomas Berger, a former judge with a deep background in resource and Indigenous issues. He has crafted a simple argument: That Ottawa failed to evaluate the project’s risks to the marine environment, which is a breach of its obligation to consider the national interest.

Ottawa approved the controversial pipeline project last November, stating that the economic benefits of getting Alberta’s landlocked oil resources to tidewater are in the national interest. But Mr. Berger will argue that the federal cabinet did not give equal and independent consideration to the environmental and economic risks British Columbia and its people would bear.

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Orange Shirt Day Inspired By A Girl Who Couldn’t Wear Hers:

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Phyllis Webstad was six-years-old when the new orange shirt she excitedly chose for her first day of school was stripped off her back. She never saw it again.

It was the early ‘70s and Webstad was the third generation of her family to attend St. Joseph’s Residential School in Williams Lake, B.C. Most people knew it as The Mission.

She was a kid. She didn’t know that merely being born an indigenous child surrendered her to an education system designed to break down her identity.

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Orange Shirt day is on September 30th all across Canada.

Orange Shirt Day is Today.